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Netflix Scammer Series ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ Loses Valid Points in a Muddled Structure: TV Review
Netflix scammer series 'Apple Cider Vinegar', starring Kaitlyn Dever as Australian influencer Belle Gibson, loses valid points in a muddled structure.
The limited series retells the rise and fall of Belle Gibson, an Australian influencer who used a host of fictional ailments — including heart problems, seizures, and Stage 4 brain cancer — to market a healthy eating app. Gibson models herself after fellow cancer blogger Milla Blake (Alycea Debnam-Carey), who rises to fame by chronicling her pursuit of “alternative” medicines like coffee enemas and juice cleanses over chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. She still delivers the most searing illustration of the paradox “Apple Cider Vinegar” works to underscore: blissed out in an Amazonian jungle, with the promise of more enlightenment around the corner, she inserts her credit card into a reader, a bit of crass commercialism intruding on what isn’t meant to be monetized.
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